Tag: Forgiveness

It belonged to me, partly, for a short time. The image above, of it reduced to a smoldering heap, atop its cinder block foundation, should make me sad, but doesn't. Although I sympathize with its current settlers, displaced and robbed of their belongings, I'm glad it's gone. If I'd been notified while it was a blaze, I…

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Displaced from a second failed marriage, I slinked back to my parents' home, with two sons, taking a front row seat to Tony's distress and ultimate decease on New Year's Eve night of that year. The holidays tiptoed in the background, outshone by his demise. Contrary to previous anticipations, I didn't revel in the spectacle.…

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The sirens fainted in the distance, ripping him farther from our grasp, while Vicki regurgitated the events unfolding during the hour I left him alone. His body had blued from lack of oxygen and released its waste, while hanging from the old oak. Chiming in, I retorted “EMS revived him and he’s on his way…

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His friends called him 'Port'. He stood a big man, massive in comparison to us as children. Calves, the size of footballs, carried the load of his muscular frame and well hydrated beer belly, hidden underneath a thick mane of wavy grey hair, worn long, beneath a greasy, frayed ball cap. For spring, summer and fall he…

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They sat on my dining room table for months; tucked inside cardboard boxes, Mama and Eric’s ashes filled two plastic bags, secured by silver medallions etched with numbers. Toiling through my grief, I struggled to accept the concept that their lives lay there in boxes. If ashes were all that remained of their existences, I…

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Ten days. Ten, all too short, days I waited before forcing myself to visit Eric. The charade of going through the motions, standing by his bedside, telling him she's dead, knowing he wouldn't....couldn't respond, unsure if he could hear me, more less comprehend what I would say, was futile. He already knew. Contemplating a make-shift…